The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-20
PAiROhS Or HUsBlSDKY.
TIE GREAT BPNEPIT OF PAR
MERS UNITING
For Mutual Advancement - The
Enormous Tax Levied on
Drive Wells.
Ioo.nEsroSprxcn OF IN. ArrsLL.I

MIDDLHBusH, N J, June IS "A case
in which tens Of thonlands OF farmers
in all parts OF the country are inter.
ssted has lately besn dtc'dtd by the
Supreme Court Of the United States,
the "Dive-well" patent case. 1t
has heen over and over again proven
that ihs first Of these wells, which cou-
sist Of nothing but a pointed tube
driven down into the ground, an5
worked by ~ ordinary pump, wss
driver IN tho cam OF the Sixty-etxth
New York State Volunteers Ia Oc'o-
Der, 1861, Of which Col. Green was
the commanding officer. Other like
wells we're used during AID after the
the war, and one in 1851 in Iodepsnd.
C Ind aud the Circuit Cour!s oil
Iowa and Indiana he'd that this use u
the wells by the public rendered lhs
patent void. Decisions upon ihe zane
subject have beea reached in N W
Jersey, as well as in CONNECTICUT ard
OOio, from wnich the pfesent ap-
peal, Just decided, WAS taken. The
Supreme Court now revsrses The lower
courts, and holds that tbs inv nti1n
had neither been anticipated nor
used by others in q name o invRli-
date the patent. rne interests Ia
yolved, viii o small in each individusl
cree, are enormous 10 the %eggregstt.
The lad ana suit showed that bO,OOO
Of these wells, on each OF which So
royalty was demanded, were Ia us IN
| tnat State alone. AS many more arr
in use IL Iowa, and the number in the
United States mas been p aced ut be
tween $780, 90 and 100000
With the prospect If psyirR thts
royalty OF frsm IS 100000 TO $4,000
1 600 staring them IN the face, one
would think that every farmer in the
nation would ut once uDite with De
organ Eation like the Grange. that fol
yo, rs past has been trying ~ have ou'
unfair patent laws go amended thai
the manufacturer OF articles that arr
patent / Judgements shall alone bt
held responsible, aud not tie limo
ceut pu CHI 1901 who pays full price 'o'
the machine, drive we'll OF whateve
the article may be, not knowing o
the patsot, or perhsps being assures
that the royalties, etc, have hea'
paid. II every fanny wfs In tn
er .nge, where he Ueiung', tue laV
which permits the leVyiug OF mi llon
OF dollars tax upon farm are from tim
to time, of which this drive we'll ]
Only one instance of many, would b
stricken from our statute books bt
fore tue adjournment OF the mex
Congress. Farmers, think on this.
Men who tnlnk the Orange ht
.'aied GU" or that 1t has done no goo
betray n degree OF ignorance lsmes'
able to behold, for the organ,Lai 10
was never more active and the good
' has done is incompafab y greater tba
the achievements OF any other ase
= c alton of farmers in all the centuri
, Of dviliE ltion.
: G,auge m, us farm, and the ord
of Patrons OF Hushanury Is q CO opsr
1 tive society of tanners who propose
= work together, WIN mean to studiou
v " learn how to work together 10 the
I own good ald the we fare OF ma
= kind In the grange, rs in the fini
W mau can have her say, as in no T.
d public organ "a ion. Modest, rettri
IN men, too, grown wise aud strong
much communion with earth -
10 heaven, will have eomsthing 10 Q
II toere, la the grange the We
u stones OF an abused land IN
10 cry out and must be h. ard.
Panty, ref iemeat, morality, bl
therhood, reverence and trust psrv
the whole social atmosphere OF t
G argN, making it al uDc rgsnial
resort 10 the dissolute and a. a1don'
and y great power to promote I
hea'tbful development of manho
~ and wumannood.